TOKYO, April 21 — One died and seven people were missing today after an apparent accident overnight involving two Japanese military helicopters out to sea, officials said. A...
In this file photo taken on September 2, 2013 a Japanese Maritime Defence Forces’ SH-60K helicopter is seen on the DDH-181 Hyuga warship at Harumi pier in Tokyo. — AFP file picTOKYO, April 21 — One died and seven people were missing today after an apparent accident overnight involving two Japanese military helicopters out to sea, officials said.
He also said the ministry retrieved flight recorders and was “analysing including possibility of a collision between the two.”The helicopters appear to have crashed during night-time training off the Izu Islands in the Pacific Ocean, broadcaster NHK reported. The Mitsubishi SH-60K helicopters from the Maritime Self-Defence Force are mainly based on and operate from naval destroyers.
Last April a Japanese army helicopter with 10 people on board crashed off Miyako island in southern Okinawa. There were no survivors.
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